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 SEPULCHRAL MONUMENTS IN OXFORD CATHEDRAL. 153 and St. Luke, with a female figure in relief between them, clad in a gown and mantle, and with long flowing hair. The sides of this tomb have been covered with polychrome. The slab which covers this tomb is eight feet eight inches long and three feet six inches wide. On this is placed a smaller slab, six feet six inches long and one foot ten inches wide, on which is the recumbent effigy of Lady Montacute, The head of the effigy reposes on a double cushion, and is supported on each side by a small figure of an angel in an alb ; these albs are loose and not girded round the waist. Tlic heads of these figures are defaced, and they are other- wise much mutilated. She is represented with her neck bare, her hair chsposed and confined on each side the face within a jewelled caul of network ; over the forehead is worn a veil, and over this is a rich cap or plaited head-dress with nebule folds, with a tippet attached to it and falhng down behind. Her body-dress consists of a robe or sleeveless gown, f^istened in front downwards to below the waist by a row of ornamented buttons. The full skirts of the gown are tastefully disposed, but not so much so as we sometimes find on eflBgies of the fourteenth century. The gown is of a red colour, flowered with yellow and green, and at each side of the waist is an opening, within which is disclosed the inner vest, of which the close-fitting sleeves of the arms, extending to the wrists, form part ; this is painted of a different colour and in a different pattern to the gown. This was probably the corset worn beneath the open super-tunic. The gown is ffounced at the skirts by a broad white border, and round the side-openings, and along the border of the top of the gown, is a rich border of leaves. The hands, which are bare, are joined on the breast in a devotional attitude. Over the gown or super-tunic is worn the mantle, fastened together in front of the breast by a large and rich lozenge- shaped jnorse, raised in high relief. This mantle falls down on each side of the body in graceful folds, but the arrange- ment of the drapery is differently disposed on one side to the other. The mantle, of a buff colour, is covered all over with rondeaux or roundels connected together by small bands, whilst in the intermediate spaces are fleur de lis : all these are of raised work and deserve minute examination. They are apparently not executed by means of the chisel, but formed in some hard paste or composition, laid upon the